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<topic id="textscalcguidedatabase_definexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
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<title id="tit">Defining Database Ranges</title>
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<bookmark branch="index" id="bm_id3154758"><bookmark_value>tables; database ranges</bookmark_value>
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<bookmark_value>database ranges; defining</bookmark_value>
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<bookmark_value>ranges; defining database ranges</bookmark_value>
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<bookmark_value>defining;database ranges</bookmark_value>
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<h1 id="hd_id3154758"><variable id="database_define"><link href="text/scalc/guide/database_define.xhp">Defining a Database Range</link>
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<paragraph id="par_id3153768" role="paragraph">You can define a range of cells in a spreadsheet to use as a database. Each row in this database range corresponds to a database record and each cell in a row corresponds to a database field. You can sort, group, search, and perform calculations on the range as you would in a database.</paragraph>
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<warning id="par_id3145801">You can only edit and access a database range in the spreadsheet that contains the range. You cannot access the database range in the %PRODUCTNAME Data Sources view. </warning>
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<paragraph id="par_idN10648" role="paragraph">To define a database range</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3155064" role="listitem">Select the range of cells that you want to define as a database range.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idN10654" role="listitem">Choose <menuitem>Data - Define Range</menuitem>.</paragraph>
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<listitem>
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<paragraph id="par_id3153715" role="listitem">In the <emph>Name</emph> box, enter a name for the database range.</paragraph>
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<listitem>
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<paragraph id="par_idN1066A" role="listitem">Click <emph>Options</emph>.</paragraph>
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<listitem>
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<paragraph id="par_id3154253" role="listitem">Specify the options for the database range.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idN10675" role="listitem">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
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